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Hi and welcome to 3reef, Nice start up. The brown growth is probably diatoms and they will disappear once the silicates have been used up, not...
Boy I am glad that worked out well. It's nice when something goes as planned, knock on wood.
There going to have to stay in a bucket with some flow and heater if need be and then returned to the tank. You do not have a cycled system for them...
If you keep the rock wet and in SW for the scrubbing you will not destroy the beneficial bacteria. You're problem is the sand bed, it's got to be...
Welcome to 3reef. If you scrub the rocks, you'll most likely disturb the 2.5 year old sand bed which is probably a bad idea at this point. My...
Hi and Welcome to 3reef. Let the tap water sit over night, that allows the chlorine to gas off some and lets the water temp heat up. Do smaller...
Yup the life you save could be your fishes. Someone had to do it.:P
Nice save, right place right time.
I was a little scared there for a second until I saw you were standing on a ladder, you're standing on a ladder right? I can not believe how spread...
Wonderful pictures, looks like a natural reef. Wow on the Red Dragon.
Yeah sorry, personally I would only be guessing. I can tell you that sometimes air bubbles develop at the end of the photo-period, I am guessing some...
Bubbles under the tissue or actual air bubbles at the tips of the coral:confused: Images make everything better. :P
Dang you're moving right along.
Hello and welcome to 3reef Mad Max. :)
Hard to say from the images. They look healthy though. The coral in the middle is a Hydnophora and they can have very long stinging sweep tentacles,...
Pineapple sponges. Commonly found in the cryptic/dark areas of the tank and sump. Numbers usually dwindle as the tank ages. Harmless.
Sorry. That is along time to have a fish.
Are going to use a chiller?
Maybe consider going the UV route if you can get a decent one. Disclaimer: Yes I know the possible downsides and I know a UV will only kill what is...
Welcome to 3reef Kordova, Sounds like quite the tank. You will have to do a DIY thread on your lighting project.
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